Sydney-based punk rock group Clay J Gladstone have just revealed their enthusiastic debut EP ‘Dead Friends’.

The EP is six tracks of dramatic, energetic punk music, propitious with lyrical tension that intertwines with vigorous instrumentation; embracing influences and emphasising the various elements that makeup Clay J Gladstone’s signature sound.

Clay J Gladstone talks about the meaning behind ‘Dead Friends’:

“The theme of the record is around struggling with mental illness, addiction, relationships and becoming a dead body – figuratively – to those around you. Whilst the lyrical themes are dark, there is an underlying and partly cryptic message that you will survive. We don’t hold ourselves down to genre which we feel you can hear, but we definitely consider DEAD FRIENDS an ode to classic emo though with a very ‘Australian’ feel.”